The famed Red Rocks Amphitheater was built entirely by young people serving in the Civilian Conservation Corp. Now, 75-years later, Dispatch is kicking off a tour there, in the name of saving service and education in America.

HeadCount has teamed up with State Radio and Dispatch to run new “Music for Action” campaigns. The first, which debuted today, sees State Radio give away two exclusive tracks in support of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis.

“The music industry needs to devise a single strategy to leverage new federal funding to mobilize fans to volunteer,” blogs State Radio‘s Chad Stokes Urmston (with co-writer Matt Wilhelm) in the Huffington Post. Urmston, whom we interviewed recently here, provides an excellent roundup of the many ways in which musicians are leveraging their fan base…

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